TY - JOUR AU - Manderbacka, Kristiina AU - Peltonen, Riina AU - Koskinen, Seppo AU - Martikainen, Pekka PY - 2011 DA - 2011/09/30 TI - The burden of diabetes mortality in Finland 1988-2007 - A brief report JO - BMC Public Health SP - 747 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - Increasing incidence of diabetes has been reported in many countries and the disease burden related to diabetes to be distributed unevenly across the population. Patients with lower socioeconomic position have been reported to have higher diabetes prevalence, higher rates of diabetes related complications and excess mortality. This study examined trends in gender, age and socioeconomic differences in the burden of diabetes mortality in the Finnish population aged 35-80 and potential years of life lost (PYLL) due to diabetes. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-747 DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-11-747 ID - Manderbacka2011 ER -